Stephanie DeGooyer

Assistant Professor of English

Stephanie DeGooyer received her Ph.D. in English literature from Cornell University in 2013. Although her research and teaching centers on the literature and philosophy of the long eighteenth century, she is generally interested in the relationship between literary form and political life, law and literature, aesthetics, and human rights theory. She is currently completing a book, The Sorrows of Anybody: The Aesthetics of Democracy in the Long Eighteenth Century, which accounts for the rise of the democratic proposition that anybody can be a subject of art in the anti-realist properties of the eighteenth-century sentimental novel. Her teaching at Willamette University covers survey courses on Eighteenth-Century British literature, as well as more specialized courses on Romanticism, Literary and Critical Theory, Democracy, Human Rights, and Laurence Sterne.